A Great Space Potato: Phobos Flyby Images
In April 2008 the Mars-orbiting HiRISE camera caught new high-resolution snapshots of Phobos. HiRISE acquired two dramatic views of the Martian moon, Phobos, on 23...
Why is the Speed of Light the Speed of Light?
Why is the speed of light the specific speed that it is? Why does light travel at 670,616,629.3844 miles per hour and not slower or...
38,000 MPH Object Hit Moon During Eclipse
During a January 2019 lunar eclipse, an object hit the moon traveling at nearly 38,000 miles per hour. The resulting flash was part of an...
Possible Aliens: Radio Pulse Pinpointed to Distant Galaxy
With some very fast accurate measurements from a radio telescope array, a radio burst called FRB 180924 (due to its detection date of Sept 24,...
Mysterious Flashes: UFOs on Mars?
The Curiosity rover captured a mysterious light flash on the red planet which was not in the image frames taken seconds before and seconds after...
Strange Space Weather Alert: Interplanetary Shock Wave Hit the Earth, May 26, 2019
Updated 5/29/2019. The earth was hit by an interplanetary shockwave from space on May 26, 2019 and this unexpectedly caused our solar wind density to...
Hear the ET Message of a Singing Comet
Comet 67P/C-G is “singing” through space, emitting magnetic field oscillations at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing as it rotates. We can hear it now...
Video: The Sound of the Big Bang + Close Lightning Strikes
For a song I’m writing, I wanted a sound of the Big Bang, but when I looked into it, the sound, as worked out by...
Why Did Israel’s Lander Crash on the Moon Yesterday?
We don’t know the exact details yet, but they told us which part failed first, leading to the crash. Crashing a spacecraft on the Moon...
Today: First Real Black Hole Images Shown
Behold, the first ever real images of a black hole, just released today, Wednesday April 10, 2019. To me this beats the other strange news...
A Hamburger Sent into Space Tastes Like…?
The strangest thing I heard about today is people eating hamburgers they sent into space. This first went up the 27th of October, 2012 at...
Israel 7th Nation to Orbit the Moon
Okay, that title from NBC News is a bit misleading. Rest assured, true strange readers, that the nation of Israel itself is not orbiting the...
The Largest Known Structure in the Universe
The scale of the universe is mind-boggling. Within that boggle is a strange fact: the largest “structure” we have observed in the universe is so...
Video: Space Water Ping Pong
This is the strangest Ping Pong I’ve seen today. Check out this cool little video of Scott Joseph Kelly playing water ping pong in space....
Jupiter: Once an earth-sized ice asteroid farther from Sun
It is strange and fascinating how much we can learn about the history of our solar system from computer simulations. Researchers at Lund University recently...
Milky Way: Star Movements Projected Over Millions of Years
This is interesting. Around 11:21 in the video below you can see the projected movement of stars in our galaxy, stars we cannot see with...